Classical music on the cutting edge returns to Carlsbadistan for its sixth season September 25-27, 2009 as the Carlsbad Music Festival takes over theRuby G. Schulman Auditorium in the Carlsbad City Library Complex.
This year’s buoyantly creative program features the Festival’s founding ensemble the Calder Quartet, famed composer/guitarist Fred Frith, California EAR Unit, and five young prize winners in the Festival’s annual International Composers Competition. All Festival events – concerts, workshops, school programs and meet-the-artists receptions – are guided by Founding Artistic Director and Carlsbad native Matthew McBane. The Carlsbad Cultural Arts Office is a presenting partner of the Festival, which is also made possible in part by the Carlsbad Library and Arts Foundation’s Robert H. Gartner Cultural Endowment Fund.
Tickets for all concerts are $25 for priority seating, $15 for general admission, $8 for students (at door), and can be purchased through www.carlsbadmusicfestival.org.
Tonight, September 17, 2009, Carlsbadistan’s own professional theatre company New Village Arts Theatre kicks of their ninth season with the play Things We Want, by Jonathan Marc Sherman.
Things We Want is young, hip, exciting and a great match for the men in NVA’s Ensemble. Three adult brothers are living together once again in their childhood apartment, struggling to define themselves while pursuing their desires and dreams. A darkly comic look at the illusions we have about what makes us happy – and what is within our power to change.
Fortune Magazine is brining the world’s more powerful women to Carlsbadistan’s Four Season’s Aviara this week (September 14-16, 2009) as they present their Most Powerful Women Summit.
The Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit is an extraordinary opportunity to spend three days with the most prominent women leaders in business, philanthropy, government, education, and the arts. The premiere gathering of its kind, the Summit is by invitation only and features a unique format: no speeches, all lively panel discussions, on-stage interviews, and interactive breakout sessions.
Speakers include: Warren Buffett (not a woman), Condoleezza Rice, Tyra Banks, Maria Bartiromo, Tina Brown, Elizabeth Edwards, Carly Fiorina, Arianna Huffington, Billie Jean King, Geraldine B. Laybourne, Marissa Mayer, Ann S. Moore, Claire Shipman, and Meg Whitman, among others.
Sounds like it might be time for us to hit up the Aviara lobby bar again. . .
Tonight, September 4, 2009 the Leo Carrillo Ranch in Carlsbadistan will host a showing of the Preston Sturges film Hotel Haywire as the first film in the 2009 Leo Carrillo Film Fest.
Dentist Henry Parkhouse (Lynne Overman) and his wife Minerva (Spring Byington) have a perfect marriage until a practical joke backfires and she finds a lady’s chemise in his coat pocket. Wife and husband both consult Dr. Zodiac Z. Zippe (Leo Carillo) about what to do, and vaudevillians-turned-detectives Bertie and Genevieve Sterns (Benny Baker and Collette Lyons) get involved as well.
Admission is free. The park opens at 5 PM and remember to bring a blanket, low-back chairs, warm clothes, and a flashlight
For more information call (760) 476-1042 or (760) 438-1666
Anyone who loves electronic music owes a huge debt of respect to Bob Moog. Everyone from Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, and Devo to Abba and George Harrison have used Moog’s technology to make music. This weekend the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbadistan is kicking off their latest exhibition: “Waves of Inspiration: The Legacy of Moog.”
The exhibition focuses on the life, work and philosophy of Bob Moog, a pioneer in the field of electronic music, developing the Moog synthesizer in 1964. The history of Bob Moog also encompasses the story of how the synthesizer became commercially accessible to musicians for the first time, and how it provided them with new realms of sonic expression.
On Sunday, August 30, 2009 at 1 PM exhibition Advisor Brian Kehew (Moog Cookbook, The Who) and Larry Fast (Synergy, Peter Gabriel) will present a multimedia exploration of the life, work and philosophy of Bob Moog. The Museum will broadcast this event LIVE over the internet on Sunday, August 30th at 1 PM (PST). To attend online, please visit www.museumofmakingmusic.org and click on the “Live Broadcast” link.
Tickets are $10; FREE for Museum Members. Purchase tickets online or call 760-438-5996.
On September 18-19, 2009 will featured The Dark Knight & Iron Man, and September 25-26, 2009 will be Night at the Museum II and Slumdog Millionaire.
The event is being sponsored by a variety of local businesses and vendors in order to offer this family friendly event at no charge to the public. Audiences are encouraged to arrive early and bring their own chairs and blankets. Food and non-alcoholic beverages will be allowed on the premises. Vendors will also be onsite selling everything from candy and popcorn to Mexican street tacos and pizza. Locals are encouraged to “go green” by riding their bicycles to the field. A bicycle valet service will be available for a small charge.
It will be just like the drive-in, without driving in. Hopefully, it’s still warm enough to enjoy being outside.
Not that anyone would have to go to Bryan Snyder’s gallery to see his art, as it seems to have been showing up all over Carlsbadistan for the past couple years, but for those who don’t get to see it as much as we do, Bryan has “created, organized, and promoted” his own show (catered by the makers of Carlsbadistan’s best fish tacos Senor Grubby’s) on Saturday August 29, 2009 at Snyder Art from 7 to 9 PM at 2695 State St, Carlsbad, CA.
For more information contact Snyder Art at 760/521-8713 or Snyderart2009.com
This Thursday August 27, 2009 is the second installment of the Carlsbad Village Association’sThursdays On The Coast art walk. The free community event held the last Thursday of each month features visual and performing artists and “will include original art in Carlsbad Village’s permanent galleries as well as, village merchants acting as temporary “phantom” galleries.”
The video above features a not-so-short overview of the event. For more information, call (760) 434-2553 or click here for meetup information.
What better way to cap off another summer of great TGIF Jazz In The Park performances than with blues guitarist Coco Montoya making his second appearance with a show this Friday August 21, 2009 in Calavera Hills Park.
Over his 30-year career, guitarist and vocalist Coco Montoya’s explosive guitar playing and soul-driven voice have propelled him to the upper reaches of the blues-rock world. Montoya performs non-stop at clubs, concert halls and major festivals all over the world, serving up mind-bending guitar licks and impassioned vocals. “The fiery blues that issue forth from Coco Montoya’s guitar are awe-inspiring and boogie requiring,” shouts The Village Voice.
Tinsley Ellis sings and plays with the energy and soul of all the great Southern musicians who have come before him. Ellis attacks his music with rock power and blues feeling, following in the tradition of Deep South musical heroes Duane Allman, Freddie King, Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes. His live shows feature extended fretwork filled with melodic and rhythmic experimentation, in the spirit of jam bands like his friends Widespread Panic and The Allman Brothers. Atlanta Magazine declared Ellis “the most significant blues artist to emerge from Atlanta since Blind Willie McTell.
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Classical music on the cutting edge returns to Carlsbadistan for its sixth season September 25-27, 2009 as the Carlsbad Music Festival takes over the Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium in the Carlsbad City Library Complex.
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